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Her first novel, The Bluest Eye , was published in She continued to write and gradually garnered national attention before publishing Beloved in Beloved was hugely successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and is regularly included in the discussion of the best novel written after World War II. In , she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her writings often focus on the experiences of black women in the United States.
She is currently a professor at Princeton University. Historical Context of The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye was written during the height of the Civil Right's Movement of the 's, and although the narrative takes place before the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, many of the novels themes explore the issues blacks were fighting for during the movement.
During the Civil rights movement, another movement emerged, called the Black is Beautiful Movement. The Black is Beautiful Movement, aimed to eliminate the idea that black people's natural features, such as skin color, facial features, and hair are inherently ugly. The movement also encouraged black people to embrace their natural features, and refrain from straightening their hair or attempting to lighten of bleach their skin.
The movement was an effort to counteract the prominent idea that white individuals are more beautiful and desirable than their black individuals.
With The Bluest Eye, Morrison set out to create a distinctively black literature, what she calls a "race-specific yet race-free prose. Morrison's prose is infused with black vernacular, and black musical traditions such as the spirituals, gospel, jazz, and the blues. Her novel also joins the modernist tradition established by Faulkner and Woolf, utilizing techniques of stream-of-consciousness, multiple perspectives, and deliberate fragmentation.
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